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January 2026
Somavara
- Gupt Navratri day 8 of 9
Sunrise
7:12 AM
Sunset
5:55 PM
Sunrise
7:11 AM 27 Jan
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The five aṅgas
- Tithi
- Shukla Ashtami
- until 9:18 PM
- then Shukla Navami
- Nakṣatra
- Ashwini
- until 12:33 PM
- then Bharani
- Yoga
- Sadhya
- until 9:11 AM
- then Shubha until 6:19 AM
- then Shukla
- Karaṇa
- Vishti
- until 10:17 AM
- then Bava until 9:18 PM
- then Balava
- Vāra
- Somavara
- sunrise to sunrise
- Moonrise & moonset
- 11:31 AM
- sets 12:22 AM
Choghaḍiyā
- Daytime from 7:12 AM
- Amṛta Best 7:12 AM – 8:32 AM
- Kāla Loss 8:32 AM – 9:52 AM
- Śubha Good 9:52 AM – 11:13 AM
- Roga Illness 11:13 AM – 12:33 PM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:33 PM – 1:54 PM
- Cala Neutral 1:54 PM – 3:14 PM
- Lābha Gain 3:14 PM – 4:34 PM
- Amṛta Best 4:34 PM – 5:55 PM
- Night from 5:55 PM
- Cala Neutral 5:55 PM – 7:34 PM
- Roga Illness 7:34 PM – 9:14 PM
- Kāla Loss 9:14 PM – 10:53 PM
- Lābha Gain 10:53 PM – 12:33 AM
- Udvega Anxiety 12:33 AM – 2:12 AM
- Śubha Good 2:12 AM – 3:52 AM
- Amṛta Best 3:52 AM – 5:32 AM
- Cala Neutral 5:32 AM – 7:11 AM
Periods of the day
Auspicious
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Brāhma muhūrta 5:25 AM – 6:18 AM
The hour before dawn, kept for japa, study and meditation rather than for beginnings.
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Abhijit muhūrta 12:12 PM – 12:55 PM
Held to override most inauspicious periods; the usual fallback when no better muhūrta is available.
Inauspicious
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Rāhu kāla 8:32 AM – 9:52 AM
Avoided for beginnings — travel, purchases, a first recitation. Ongoing practice is not interrupted.
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Yamagaṇḍa 11:13 AM – 12:33 PM
Avoided for auspicious undertakings, on the same footing as rāhu kāla.
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Gulika kāla 1:54 PM – 3:14 PM
Held to make what is begun in it repeat, so it is avoided for anything one would not want again.
Cāturmāsya — next runs 24 Jul 2026 to 20 Nov 2026, from Devaśayanī Ekādaśī in Āṣāḍha to Prabodhinī Ekādaśī in Kārtika.
The choghaḍiyā and the periods above are marked customary: they are widely kept practice, and no text this site publishes prescribes them yet. The aṅgas, sunrise and sunset are computed and exact.
Computed with dṛk gaṇita (observation-based) and the Lahiri (Citrāpakṣa) ayanāṁśa, from the Swiss Ephemeris. The day's aṅgas are those running at sunrise. How dates are computed.